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Holy water: Nuns fight Italian town’s plans to take away their beach club
Holy water: Nuns fight Italian town’s plans to take away their beach club
Sisters argue they should retain concession in Ligurian town of Spotorno because it funds charitable activities.

Tue, 18 Aug, 2026

Trump
Trump says Iran won't make deal he thinks is needed, threatens to bomb Oman
"If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the shit out of them," Trump told Fox News. 

Tue, 18 Aug, 2026

Princess Eugenie pregnancy
Princess Eugenie names baby girl after ‘three people we love’
Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank’s daughter is a younger sibling to the couple’s two sons August, five, and Ernest, three, known as Augie and Ernie.

Tue, 18 Aug, 2026

Tupac Trial
Witnesses describe the night Tupac Shakur was shot on first day of murder trial
Witnesses have recalled the night rapper Tupac Shakur was shot as the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing opened in Las Vegas.

Tue, 18 Aug, 2026

Tupac Trial
Opening statements begin at Tupac Shakur murder trial
Opening statements have begun in the trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, the start of weeks of evidence revisiting what happened on a Las Vegas night nearly 30 years ago.

Mon, 17 Aug, 2026

Italy Etna Volcano
Tourist killed by lightning strike on Mount Etna while hiking in restricted area
An American tourist was killed by a lightning strike on Sicily’s Mount Etna while hiking in an area that was closed to visitors due to recent volcanic activity, Italian firefighters have said.

Mon, 17 Aug, 2026

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza
Kushner discusses Gaza with Netanyahu after two-hour meeting with Hamas
Middle East negotiator and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is meeting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the premier rejected the 15-point, US-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza.

Mon, 17 Aug, 2026

Colombia Earthquake
Search teams comb rubble in Colombia nearly a week after quake as aid effort expands
Official estimates issued on Sunday put the death toll at around ​290, with more than 140 people still missing and 4,200 injured.

Mon, 17 Aug, 2026

Obit Hayden Panettiere
'Heroes' and 'Nashville' star Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36 
“She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen,” her father, Skip Panettiere, said in a statement.

Mon, 17 Aug, 2026

Hungary Bus Crash
Hungary bus crash: 12 killed and several injured in road disaster
Many of the 57 passengers on the bus were trapped under the vehicle when it overturned, according to Hungary’s national directorate for disaster management

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026

TOPSHOT-INDONESIA-QUAKE
Thousands evacuated following earthquake in Indonesia 
130 people were injured and 5,000 more were evacuated following magnitude-7.7 earthquake on Saturday

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026

Greece Wildfire
Fire crews battle blazes in Belgium and Greece as two die on island near Athens
Firefighters battled a massive wildfire that scorched a nature reserve in eastern Belgium and another on a Greek island where two people were killed on Sunday as hot and dry conditions fuelled fires across parts of Europe.

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026

Italy Museum Theft
Thieves steal Renaissance artworks in Sicilian museum heist on Italian holiday
Thieves have stolen four works attributed to Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum on the Italian Ferragosto holiday, according to the LaPresse new agency.

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026

Poland Giant Virgin Mary
Europe’s tallest statue of Virgin Mary inaugurated in small Polish village
An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary which is believed to be Europe’s tallest has been inaugurated in a small Polish village, in the presence of veteran anti-communist leader Lech Walesa.

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026

Emergency lights on an american police car
Teenager arrested at Virginia State University after five injured in shooting
Authorities have given no information about a possible motive. Police obtained eight felony warrants for Harris, including for malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony

Sun, 16 Aug, 2026

John Swinney visit to The Bughties Care Home
Swinney urges commentators to ‘consider impact of words’ after Jason Arday death
The death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday is a “deeply concerning and sad case” John Swinney has said – with Scotland’s First Minister adding that those who had made “hard comments” after a plagiarism row must “consider the impact of their ...

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Spring Statement 2025
Flynn reveals he resigned as Westminster leader weeks before Holyrood election
Stephen Flynn has revealed he quit as Westminster leader weeks before the Holyrood election.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Liechtenstein Royal Succession
Liechtenstein changes rules to allow women to inherit throne
Liechtenstein’s royal house said on Saturday that the tiny country’s rules of succession will be changed so that a woman could in the future inherit the principality’s throne.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Iran US Aircraft Carrier
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of US aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Giant Virgin Mary
Europe’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary inaugurated in small Polish village
An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest was inaugurated on Saturday in a small Polish village, financed by one of Poland’s richest businesspeople. The monument towers 55.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Jason Arday resignation
Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead
Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Trump
Donald Trump threatens to declare strait of Hormuz ‘territory of the United States’
Seriousness of remark made in New York on Friday, and whether it signaled new policy ​position, not clear

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

Indonesia Earthquake
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s coast, killing at least 20
A powerful magnitude 7. 7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early on Saturday, killing at least 20 people. Authorities said six people were injured, and two others were missing after a landslide triggered by the quake.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026

UnitedHealthcare CEO Killed
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to charges related to killing of UnitedHealthcare executive in federal case
Plea comes weeks before separate case is scheduled to start in New York, and could throw proceedings into disarray

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

France Wildfires
Almost 500 arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France this summer
More than 180 minors among those detained, as firefighters tackle blazes across Europe amid record-breaking heatwave

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

Germany Berlin Fire
Resident jumps to safety after Berlin high-rise fire
At least five people were injured after a fire in a 21-storey Berlin high-rise led to some residents consider jumping to escape the flames, local media reported. The severity of the injuries was not immediately known, German news agency dpa said.

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

A broken window and the interior of the Ryanair aircraft, following a reported emergency landing, in location given as Thessalon
Bird remains found aboard 737 engine from Ryanair Greek incident
The NTSB said ​in its preliminary report into the July 10 incident that four suspected bird ⁠strikes to the aeroplane's No. 2 engine were reported by the flight crew in the 12 months ​preceding the accident

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

Japan Heavy Rain
Heavy rain causes deadly flooding near Tokyo and strands travellers
At least four people are dead and one more is missing after record-breaking rainfall pounded cities east of Tokyo overnight, flooding roads and dozens of homes, stranding thousands of people and causing power outages.

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

Climate El Nino
Romania shuts its last nuclear reactor as drought-hit Danube river drops to record low
Cernavoda shutdown poses immediate problems for Moldova, which relies on Romanian power ​to cover its own electricity shortages

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

Nigel Farage beats Count Binface in by-election but police contest 'credible threat' claim
Nigel Farage beats Count Binface in by-election but police contest 'credible threat' claim
The Reform UK leader pre-empted the official declaration by telling supporters he had won “fairly convincingly” and the result was an “overwhelming endorsement” of him.

Fri, 14 Aug, 2026

UnitedHealthcare CEO Killed
Killing-accused Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty to federal charges
Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing US health insurance chief executive Brian Thompson. A person familiar with the case cautioned that Mangione could change his mind.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Ryanair to cut jobs in Manchester
US probe finds engine part shattered window on Ryanair flight
An engine fan blade broke off on a Ryanair flight and sent parts flying that shattered a plane window shortly after take-off in Greece.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Israel Palestinians
Israeli settlers’ siege of Palestinian homes draws sharp US rebuke
Israeli settlers have surrounded three Palestinian homes on the outskirts of a town in the occupied West Bank, preventing the families from leaving safely as their food and water supplies dwindle.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Italy Extreme Weather Drought
Nero’s Bridge emerges from Tiber River as Rome faces water crisis
The remains of an ancient bridge have emerged in Rome’s Tiber River, near St Peter’s Basilica, as weeks with virtually no rain caused water levels to plunge.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Mideast Oil Tanker Spill
British firm starts containment of oil spill from stricken tanker off Oman
A British company has been hired to salvage a grounded Russian shadow fleet tanker off Oman’s coast and stop an oil spill that is threatening wildlife as it reaches the country’s shoreline following its dramatic spread in recent weeks.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

APTOPIX Congo Ebola
DR of Congo’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak reaches a sixth province
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death was recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province, Africa CDC director-general Jean Kaseya said.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Air Force One Trump
Credible missile threat led to secret aircraft switch for Trump, source says
A threat that Air Force ​One could be targeted by a shoulder-fired missile prompted the Secret Service to secretly move President Donald Trump during a trip to Turkey ‌last month, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Tate Brothers
Judge postpones hearing over whether Tate brothers should stay in custody
A federal judge in Miami has postponed a hearing over whether social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Trump
Karoline Leavitt: six key takeaways from 20 months as Trump’s press secretary
Trump’s most prominent spokesperson won regular plaudits from her boss for her unflinching defense of his agenda

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Iran Protests US Military
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Clacton by-election
Voters go to polls in Clacton by-election triggered by Farage
Mr Farage is facing opponents including satirical candidate Count Binface, actor-turned-politician Laurence Fox, three from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and an array of independents.

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Air Force One Trump
Rubio and Bessent stayed on decoy flight as Trump switched planes, official says
The two most senior members of Donald Trump’s cabinet, secretary of state Marco Rubio and treasury secretary Scott Bessent, flew out of last month’s Nato summit in Turkey on what was effectively a decoy plane following an Iranian threat, while the ...

Thu, 13 Aug, 2026

Trump Press Secretary
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave role at end of month
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the role, will leave the role at the end of the month, President Donald Trump has announced.

Wed, 12 Aug, 2026

The Bucket List UK Premiere - London
Nick Reiner ‘was lying in wait before killing parents Rob and Michele Reiner’
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, actor Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.

Wed, 12 Aug, 2026

Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Eurovision winner ineligible to host if involved in ‘armed conflict’
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said the rule changes were made following feedback from participating broadcasters

Wed, 12 Aug, 2026

APTOPIX Congo Ebola
DR Congo Ebola outbreak on track to eclipse deadliest in history, says WHO
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is on track to eclipse the deadliest one in history that killed more than 11,000 people out of more than 28,000 cases, the head of the World Health Organisation said.

Wed, 12 Aug, 2026

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